News and comment

01 December 2009 Comments News and comment The illegal persecution of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus rarely attracts mainstream media coverage – but it was national news at the end of October! Two Hen Harriers were shot on the edge of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk and police interviewed Prin...
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Letter

01 December 2009 Comments Letters The two outlying Orkney islets north of Cape Wrath usually known to ornithologists as Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, and on charts as Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry (Brit. Birds 100: 300–­304), present problems of nomenclature. Until recently, `Solan Gee...
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Notes

01 December 2009 Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...
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News and comment

01 March 1990 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds. ' Birdwatchers' Conference 1989 Swanwick, Derbyshire, was once again home to the BTO's annual conference, held over the weekend of lst-3rd December. Most people arr...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1990 Comments Main paper n p h e gull (Brit. Birds 82: plate 370) was named Great Black-headed Gull Lams ichthyaetus (35%) C o m m o n Gull L. canus (33%) Mediterranean Gull L. melanocephalus (18%) Ring-billed Gull L. delawarensis (13%) I For the first time in this fourth 'Marath...
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